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These are random thoughts from the past couple of weeks. Some of these I’ve shared on social media, and a few, I haven’t. Maybe there is something here that will connect with some of you which is one of life’s true means of satisfaction. There is no “They.”There is no “Them.”There is only us, and [...]
My next novel is now finished, and I am in the process of seeking representation. This can take some time. In some cases, it's more than a year before you hear anything back from agents and publishers. I wanted all of you to know what it is about and that, regardless of how these submissions [...]
Seeing anything as absolute keeps you from understanding anything beyond what you’ve limited yourself to understanding. It’s not knowledge that would lead a person to this end, it is desperation. Desperation begs for an ultimate answer when an ultimate answer is an unknowable impossibility. You simply cannot know. You can believe. That will need to [...]
As my friends floated into the ether of boredom brought on by quarantine, I started creating videos to entertain anyone who might be watching on my Facebook pages. I hadn’t picked up my guitar much or sang much in a while, so I decided to do some music. I also read a couple of chapters [...]
https://open.spotify.com/episode/62Lt0AQO72HydJXYyFVvJh?si=0payviVJSSij6WgexwBW2w&dl_branch=1 Vonnegut probably would have said that people are Mistake Machines. We all make mistakes, and we are as prolific and proficient at making them as we are at making anything else we have ever made. He also may have said that the best Mistake Machines of all are also fantastic Apology Machines because, while [...]
Joseph D. Newcomer 